‘A portable typewriter with paper and ribbons, I don’t have to go around borrowing from the teachers. Mark, come up and look at this, Mark has been showing me how to read and write using borrowed typewriters. 563 more words

The other four boys had made it to the abseil Maurice volunteered to go down with Tucker. Mark and Rupert controlled the ropes so they could go down slowly when they were safely on terra firma they removed the ropes and waited for the other two to join them. 510 more words

I know, I seem to write a lot of “open letters” – but mostly I write them as open letters because I have very low expectations that anyone with any authority in such matters would actually care about what I have to say. 629 more words